John Gotti Jr
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
John Gotti Jr’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Look, I could tell you it was far more difficult back in John's time to be a street guy than it is today. Today it ain't quite the same. It's just not. You're not living the life the way John lived it, to be perfectly frank.
And again, I'm 26 years removed. So I, you know, there's still somewhat of a fascination even for me. Um, There's a lot of endearing individuals that I knew that called uncle, still call him today. I did time with a lot of these gentlemen as well. They're special people.
They're special guys that they could have been successful in a whole host of things in their lives if they really chose to be, especially John, especially my father. Again, that wasn't an exaggeration. That was an accurate statement that he had a 140 IQ. That's wild. He could have done anything he wanted in his life. He'll tell you. He says it. He says it on Wiretap. He says it.
He says it in Marion, Illinois, visits between he and I. He says, John, there weren't many doors open to me. The only door was open was the one I went through, which brought me to where I am today. And I would look at him and, you know, because he's my father, and I would always be respectful and say, I know, Dad, I understand. But that's not what I thought in my mind. I would say that's not true.
It's not true. Yes, it was. And yes, I guess back then and the glamour and everything else that goes with it. And again, maybe most kids growing up, their idol was Mickey Mantle. My father's idol was Albert Anastasia. Okay. But the point is that you possess the intelligence. Now, you didn't possess the opportunity like I did.
My father struggled and he moved the money, but he made sure that he put me in military school. He gave me the same education Donald Trump's father gave him. So there's no excuse. I have no excuse. He wanted you to get out. He didn't want you to pursue the life that he had. My father wanted me to go to military school and do something spectacular with my life.
And I wanted not quite what my father wanted. I wanted to go on to an ROTC oriented college and pursue a career in the military. That's what I wanted. And it took a wrong turn at some point, and I ended up where I was. Now, if you ask me, well, John, if your next question is, do you have any regrets? We all do at some point if we live long enough. If we're old enough, we have regrets.
But I don't regret being around my father. I don't. I cherish those moments. Look, I'm sorry, but do I miss that life? No. Nope. Do I miss John Gotti? You bet. He was something special to be around. That was it. I can't even, it's unfair to me to describe it to you because everybody's going to watch and say, well, that's your father, that's your father, that's your father. It's not right.
Because I'm doing a show, I'm working on a show right now, and I'm interviewing people that were labeled by the government as shot callers. In Marion, Illinois and other institutions that did time with John Gotti. And I'll let them tell you what kind of a man he was. Okay? He was the complete package. Listen, I have two idols in my life. Two. Only two. John Gotti. Nelson Mandela. That's it.
That's where it ends. Nobody else impressed me. I'm not impressed. You can't impress me too easily. They impressed me. They impressed me. And for me to have my father, not only because he's my father, but to be my idol, tells you what a special man he was. But for that life, and my view should be the best view, and I'm going to tell you why. I'm not hardcore.
There's hardcore guys that don't know any better. They don't know any better. They say, this is what we know. Okay? My political view is I'm a true blue independent. That's what I am. I was a Bill Clinton Democrat, and I can jump right over. I can like Donald Trump. I'm a true blue independent that stays in the middle, and I evaluate a situation, not the politics. I evaluate the situation.
I evaluate the person, and I can make a choice where I believe it's out my best interest, my children's best interest, where we should be. I can make that evaluation, okay? Not where maybe like my father being a hardcore guy says, it's cut and dry. This is who we are.
Or his statement that he had made to me when I visited him, that last visit we ever had together was when a man chooses a path and he walks down that path, to be a man, you have to see that walk to the end. You have to stay on that path all the way to the end. I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. Circumstances change. Everything changes.
So me being a true blue independent, my perspectives go, I could evaluate. And I'm telling you from the outside looking in, okay, now I'm on the outside now looking in, what kind of a man my father was. I know his flaws and I know his qualities. His qualities outweigh the flaws and his qualities regardless of being a hoodlum, they're through the roof.
February 5th, 1999. I was granted a visit, which wasn't supposed to be a visit. It was supposed to be a phone call because I refused to take a plea on a case. And I took the plea on the case. Well, I wanted to see my father. and I wanted to be declared a civilian. I wanted to be put on a shelf for the rest of my life. And I sent him a message up earlier, and he evaluated that message.
And when I walked into that visit, he came right at me. I gave him a hug first. Well, it's really interesting to tell you because you'll enjoy this story because, again, it goes into the persona of John Gotti, okay? Not me. I wouldn't have done it this way, but he did. I'm there, and a marshal escorts me, okay, to visit my father now.
And at first, the prosecution, Southern District and White Plains, they refused to have me and my father in the same room. Prosecutor gets up and says that we communicate in a code that the CIA would have a hard time cracking. They can't be in the same room. She's telling Barrington Parker, Judge Barrington Parker this, and he says nonsense.
Under the same provisions that he's seen him in Marion, Illinois, he could see his father. Now, the problem was USP Springfield wasn't qualified to create those provisions, to create that booth, the glass, everything else. So they had to put us in a conference room, and we had to sit across the table, a wide table, and there was a tripod set up, videotape, the whole thing. Okay, the whole thing.
And I get there, and the marshal walks me in and excuses himself. And lieutenant and captain of the prison come in and greet me, and I shake their hand. How are you? Your father's being brought down right now, and he's dying of cancer. This is February 5th, 99, as I'd said. He had the surgeries. His jaw's missing. Half his tongue is missing. Half his pec is gone.
He's down to maybe 160 pounds, 165 pounds. He comes down. He's belly chained and all shackled. And I hear the chains moving in the hall. He's coming down. He's doing the stutter step dance because he only can walk with the ankle chains on. And there's about eight or nine guards around him. They're bringing him. They're transporting him.
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